The USGS now shows 5 earthquakes (that people can probably feel) and 14 smaller ones. This includes one that popped up while I was writing this post.

These are all clustered in a very small area on the northwest side of Enoch. Basically right under the house of vX friends KQ and RQ.*

The worry is that a swarm of quakes like this can be foreshocks before a much larger quake. Let’s hope it’s just reducing stress instead of building it up.

* FWIW: the latitude and longitude figures for these quakes are just bizarre. Most of them are around latitude 37.80 N 113.13 W, with a give or take that’s almost always less than a tenth of a degree. That’s about 7 miles. Some of them are showing up separated by a few thousandths of a degree from each other. That’s a few hundred feet. But, they are all coming at different depths. Kind of fun to watch …

UPDATE: the second quake is now listed. Magnitude 3.5, a bit further to the north-northwest.

UPDATE 2: now they’re reporting a third one, a 2.9, perhaps 40 miles due west.

UPDATE 3: Mickey Mouse was here! The map shows the southwest corner of Utah, eastern Nevada, and a bit of Arizona. The two red dots on the right were within the last hour. The red dot to the left is the one in Update 2 that I did not feel. Colleague Wayne Roberts said he felt the yellow one on the right yesterday.

Here’s an example of the problem. In the linked file, the header on page 87 is at the top of a portrait page, and on page 88 it is at the top of a landscape page. But if you print those two pages out and bundle them with the pages all in portrait, the header is in two different spots.

The workaround is bizarre, but it works. Here goes:

Open your header for editing (ALT N H E).

Insert a text box (ALT N X).

Cut the header that isn’t where you want it, and paste it inside the text box.

Rotate the text inside the text box (ALT J X G).

Now here’s the weird part. Drag the text box outside of the header to wherever you want it on your page. That text box is still part of your header, but it doesn’t appear in your header.

As long as the landscape pages are in their own section, with “link to previous” turned off, this methods works like a charm.

I edit a journal. I am doing final editing on a paper that’s almost ready to go to print. And I realize that the references haven’t been checked yet.* Too late to ask someone else, so I do it myself.

And a funny thing happened.

The first reference in the body of the paper was the first one in the alphabetical list of references at the end of the paper. No biggie.

But then the second reference in the body was the second in alphabetical order.

I didn’t see the pattern until I was almost done. But here are the authors in order of mention in the paper:

Allen [2001]

Bardhan and Walker [2010]

Chen, Roll and Ross [1986]

Clark-Neely and Wheelock [1997]

Levonian [1994]

Paletta and Scannell [2009]

Rose [1996]

Shiers [2002]

And what came after Shiers? Sorry folks; Zou, Miller and Malamud’s [2011] paper was mentioned a few sentences before Zimmerman [1996].

What are the odds? The paper had 10 references. The odds are 1 in 10 that the first paper mentioned would be first alphabetically. After that there are 9 more left, so the odds of the second paper mentioned being second alphabetically are 1 in 9. But, the odds of both of them turning out that was are now 1 in 90. Do the math: the odds of 8 papers appearing in alphabetical order is 1,814,400 to 1.

FWIW: The paper will appear on the website next week.

* For those who aren’t academics, when you publish a paper in a journal, items are referenced in the body of the paper in some sort of shorthand, and a complete references appear at the end of the article. Checking references means making sure everything that’s in the body is also in the back.

I think this is more of an internal designation than an actual major … but even so.

And how did I come across this gem? have a full class, and was looking for students who hadn’t showed up for the first week to drop so that people on the wait list could get in. My Pre-General Studies major hasn’t been to class yet. I feel shocked.

Saturday, August 4 - Men's 10k Finals Watch the race on NBC, set to air at 4:15 p.m.

Wednesday, August 8 - Men's 5k Preliminaries Watch recaps of the race, anticipated to air on NBC at 10:45-11 a.m. and 1:15-2 p.m., or watch a live video stream of the event at 3 a.m. online at nbcolympics.com.

Saturday, August 11 - Men's 5k Finals The 5k final is anticipated to be shown during NBC's primetime coverage from 8 p.m. to Midnight. A live video stream of the track finals, including the men's 5k, can be seen on nbcolympics.com beginning at 11:45 a.m.

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